Leveraging Data Governance to Jumpstart an Access Management Program
  Jennifer Trotsko   Jennifer Trotsko
Head, Data Access and Control Office
International Finance Corporation
 
  Gwen Thomas   Gwen Thomas
Founder
The Data Governance Institute
 


 

Wednesday, April 25, 2018
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Level:  Intermediate


If your organization hasn’t already fast-tracked a data access management modernization effort, chances are that it will. Control over authorized access is an essential element of GDPR compliance, privacy by design, cross-organization data sharing, breach prevention and response, and proactive information security. Once the need is established, most organizations start evaluating tools and technologies, and many are available. What they all have in common is the need to consume clear, standardized rules that specify WHO gets WHAT access rights to WHAT data, under WHAT conditions. They all assume business-driven governance over the data, rules, and policies. They depend upon the ability to translate legal, compliance, risk, and operational needs into technology requirements. In this session, learn how the leader of a mature Data Governance organization teamed with IT to jumpstart an enterprise-wide Access Management program. Learn how they: 

  • Built a coalition of legal, risk, compliance, privacy, and governance stakeholders 
  • Leveraged architecture and Information security programs
  • Navigated choices in access management technology stacks 
  • Negotiated budgets, accountabilities, and decision-making 
  • Developed access rules focused on data rather than systems


Jennifer Trotsko leads the Data Access and Control Office at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group (WBG). She develops policy and oversees enterprise-wide initiatives which span data governance, privacy, risk, access controls, and supporting IT implementations. Ms. Trotsko was previously Head of IFC's Data Governance Office, leading a World Bank Group enterprise-wide Master Data Management implementation and managing IFC's customer data improvement program, corporate data dictionary, and reference data. Ms. Trotsko started her career with IFC in Moscow in 1997, as a Program Manager for IFC's Russian Electricity Sector Reform Project.

As the primary author of the DGI framework and guidance materials published at DataGovernance.com, Gwen has influenced hundreds of data programs around the globe. She spent many years working in IT shops and providing data management and data governance consulting services, before spending 10 years as an in-house data strategist for the World Bank Group's private sector arm. Much of her time there focused on translating between executives, program leaders, data governance teams, lawyers, architects, modelers, policy writers, auditors, and data quality teams. While she is a technician, her special focus is on helping non-technical teams become stronger advocates for their own needs.